Maven toolchains and puppet
Posted by Admin • Monday, August 31. 2015 • Category: DevOps, Linux
For today's trick we'll be setting up maven toolchains.xml files on Jenkins slaves that are managed by puppet. One option for doing this is to use the Jenkins Config File Provider plugin - but all that really does is push a predetermined file to the slaves before running the job (now if it only worked together with the Jenkins tool provider data...) In our case, we have Jenkins slaves with different OS versions and thus different toolchain locations - for example, minor JDK releases differ across OS's and thus the paths are not the same.
Instead, the plan is to do two things:
Instead, the plan is to do two things:
- Create a puppet custom fact with installed tool info
- Use it from a puppet template
